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CDRH has authorized over 100 devices through the Breakthrough Devices Program since program launch in 2015 and 2 devices through the STeP Program since program launch in 2021. The Safety and Performance Based Pathway Program [ 23 ] ensures better quality devices on the market by allowing innovators to assess devices against performance criteria ...
The Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with Compagnie générale de radiologie (CGR) of France).
(a) The Secretary shall establish and carry out an electronic product radiation control program designed to protect the public health and safety from electronic product radiation. As a part of such program, Secretary shall — (1) Develop and administer performance standards for electronic products
The Atomic Energy Commission refurbished and expanded the plant at a cost of $25 million. The remaining 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of the original site were leased from Texas Tech in 1989. Pantex was operated by Procter & Gamble from 1951 to 1956, Mason & Hanger from 1956 to 2001, and Babcock & Wilcox from 2001 to 2014. [5]
1985 to 1987 – The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). It is known to be responsible for six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, which were in some cases on the order of hundreds of grays. Three patients died as a result of the ...
The UVM Health Network wants to spend $15 million on six new linear accelerators for four of its hospitals, including The UVM Medical Center. A current linear accelerator is pictured here.
Since these low energy X-rays were mostly absorbed in the first few centimeters of tissue, to deliver a large enough radiation dose to buried tumors would cause severe skin burns. [7] Therefore beginning in the 1920s "orthovoltage" 200–500 kV X-ray machines were built. [8]
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